To Build a Ship

Berry, Don

ISBN 10: 0870710400 / ISBN 13: 9780870710407

Editore: Oregon State University Press, 2004

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0870710400I3N00

Riassunto:

In To Build a Ship, Don Berry explores the extent to which a man can betray himself and his morality for a dream or an obsession. It's the story of a handful of settlers who take up land in the fertile Tillamook Bay Valley in the early 1850s - defiant dreamers battling the wilderness. With impenetrable mountains at their backs and the open sea as their sole road to trade, they are suddenly isolated from the outside world when the only captain willing to enter their harbor dies. With the survival of their new settlement threatened, they decide to build their own schooner.
At first the challenge brings out the best in the men, but soon the tensions inherent in this monumental task engulf them. Obstacles accumulate and complications mount: a death, a murder trial, trouble with restive Indians, and finally a travesty of justice. Excitement, shock, and drama mark this story of men pushed to the point of madness as they see the Morning Star of Tillamook slowly take shape on the wild Pacific shore.

Product Description: Book by Berry Don

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Titolo: To Build a Ship
Casa editrice: Oregon State University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket